"French Grenadiers Converged?" Topic

Were the French Grenadiers converged units or stand alone?

My understanding is not as long standing formations like the British and Hessian Grenadier Battalions; but rather only short term for specific assaults/actions.

As far as I know, the French grenadier companies stayed with their respective regiments. They were only separated for special tasks, e.g. the grenadiers of the Régiment Royal de Deux-Ponts for storming redoubt no. 9 at Yorktown, together with the chasseurs of the same regiment.

Cool I'll paint them up and keep them with their units. Its hard to tell some times with the way stuff like that gets packaged from the manufacturers. Thanks for the help guys.

This thread TMP link suggests that the French may have converged individual grenadier and chasseur companies at Savannah.

Of course, the French at Savannah were all detachments from all over the Caribbean, probably mostly flank companies.

I would not think "mostly flank companies".
I think that an awful lot of colonels when given an order to "send a draft of your BEST MEN" would take that as a good excuse to get rid of the dregs and jailbirds they have been holding on to only to collect their pay.

Many of the detachments at Savannah were four-company battalions, comprising two flank companies and two fusilier companies, all at full paper strength. The fusiliers appear to have been chosen or "volunteered" from across the four fusilier companies of the parent battalion (both battalions of a regiment did not always serve in the same garrison for various reasons).

Viewed as a whole, the "modus operandi" of the French when it came to flank companies was to bring together the four (two grenadier, two chasseur) in each brigade and have them as a mission-specific resource at that level. The ad hoc commander seems to have been a Major or Lt Col from the senior regiment (although possibly it was the most senior officer).